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Moving on

Last September, The Gables in Newmarket was the scene of a Dick Francis-style drama as Ivan Allan, wealthy racehorse owner, had his former lover, Glory Clibbery, evicted from the house. One-legged, wheelchair-bound Clibbery was carried out by bailiffs escorted by policemen. Now The Gables has come onto the market. The price of the seven-bedroom, red-brick 1930s mansion is £795,000, much less than the £1.7m it was reported to be worth at the time. Agent Jackson-Stops & Staff says the place needs “considerable renovation”.

Peter Hain, the leader of the Commons, is struggling to sell his house in the Welsh valleys. He put his constituency home in the town of Resolven, near Neath, on the market for £320,000 early in the summer, but six months later the three-bedroom place, perched on top of a hill, still hasn’t shifted and local agent Peter Alan has knocked it down to £275,000.